Prince Ludwig Gaston of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha explained

Prince Ludwig Gaston
Spouse:
    Issue:Prince Antonius of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
    Princess Maria Immaculata of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
    Princess Josefine of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
    Full Name:Ludwig Gaston Klemens Maria Michael Gabriel Raphael Gonzaga
    House:Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry
    Father:Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
    Mother:Princess Leopoldina of Brazil
    Birth Name:Prinz Ludwig Gaston von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha, Herzog von Sachsen
    Birth Date:15 September 1870
    Birth Place:Ebenthal, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary
    Death Place:Innsbruck, Nazi Germany
    Burial Place:St. Augustin, Coburg

    Prince Ludwig Gaston of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Ludwig Gaston Klemens Maria Michael Gabriel Raphael Gonzaga; 15 September 1870  - 23 January 1942), known in Brazil as Dom Luís Gastão, was a German prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, and the last surviving grandchild of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil.

    Biography

    Early life

    Ludwig Gaston was born at Schloss Ebenthal (Niederösterreich) in Ebenthal, Lower Austria in Austria-Hungary, the youngest son of Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Princess Leopoldina of Brazil, the second daughter of Dom Pedro II.[1] [2] His siblings were Princes Peter August, August Leopold and Joseph Ferdinand. Shortly after their mother's death in 1871, Ludwig and his brothers moved to Brazil, where they lived with their maternal grandfather until a military coup d'état in 1889 abolished the monarchy, forcing the imperial family into exile.

    Military and later life

    Ludwig Gaston went to Wiener Neustadt to study at the Theresian Military Academy, where he successfully graduated in 1892. After that, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant of the Fourth Tiroler Jäger-Regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Army in Lienz. On 1 May 1896, Ludwig obtained the rank of First Lieutenant; on 29 March 1900, he was given command of the First Tiroler Jäger-Regiment in Innsbruck, and on 1 May 1903, he further advanced to the rank of Captain.[3] He left the army on 8 February 1907.

    In Munich, on 1 May 1900, the prince married firstly Princess Mathilde, daughter of King Ludwig III of Bavaria. Their wedding was hosted by her grandfather, Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria.[4] They had two children:

    After the death of his first wife in 1906, he married for a second time Countess Anna of Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg, daughter of Karl Johann Nepomuk Ferdinand, Prince von und zu Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg and Josephine, Markgräfin von Pallavicini, (1873  - 1948) at Bischofteinitz on 30 November 1907. They had one daughter:

    Death

    Prince Ludwig Gaston died on 23 January 1942 in Innsbruck, and was buried in the St. Augustine's Church in Coburg.[5]

    Titles, styles and honours

    Royal Name:Prince Ludwig Gaston
    Dipstyle:His Highness
    Offstyle:Your Highness

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    Notes and References

    1. Defrance, 232
    2. Bragança (1959), 74-75
    3. Book: Edmund Glaise von Horstenau. Peter Broucek. Ein General im Zwielicht: K.u.K. Generalstabsoffizier und Historiker. 1980. Böhlau Verlag Wien. 978-3-205-08740-3. 142.
    4. Die Woche (in German), no. 20. 19 May 1900. pp. 848, 850.
    5. Web site: Coburg - St. Augustinkirche . 2018-03-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110605001806/http://www.royaltyguide.nl/countries/germany/coburg/staugustinkirche.htm . 2011-06-05 . dead .
    6. Bragança (1959), 87, 90
    7. Bragança (2008), 166